The Case Against the Trauma Plot

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. Parul Sehgal on whether this trope deepens characters, or flattens them into a set of symptoms.

The Novel That Found Its Melodrama in the Psychoanalyst's Office

The trauma detective who combs through killers' pasts to help them

Are We Our Traumas? - by John Warner

The Yale Review Sanjena Sathian: The Choice Plot

JFK (1991) - IMDb

SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 40 - by Meaghan Garvey

PDF) The Trauma Paradigm and Commercial Fiction: The Case of Fifty

The case FOR the trauma plot? How writers can use it with purpose

Trauma Plots